8240th Security Council Meeting: Sudan and South Sudan

Security Council extends modified mandate of United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), unanimously adopting Resolution 2412 (2018) at 8240th meeting.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 00:01:39
• Production Date: 23 April 2018
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Personal Subject: GUSTAVO MEZA-CUADRA
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS INTERIM SECURITY FORCE FOR ABYEI - UNISFA
• Subject Topical: BOUNDARIES; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; TROOPS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN; SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 2135634
• Parent Id: 2134935

Description

The Security Council extended until 15 October 2018 a modification to the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) as laid out in two resolutions from 2011 and 2014, agreeing that it would be the final such extension until the parties took several measurable steps related to the contested border area.

Unanimously adopting resolution 2412 (2018), the Council renewed the modifications set forth in resolution 2024 (2011) and paragraph 1 of resolution 2075 (2012), both relating to UNISFA’s support for a Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism.

By its terms, the Council decided the extension would be the final until the parties took action leading to progress on border demarcation, specifically: Maintaining standing clearance for all UNISFA air and ground patrols, including landing within the Safe Demilitarized Border Zone, and maintaining approval for 100 per cent of requested sorties no later than 72 hours after the requests are delivered; finalizing an agreement on the four Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism team sites; and convening at least two meetings of the parties in order to withdraw from the Safe Demilitarized Border Zone.

Other actions included making progress to establish several Phase I border crossing corridors and opening two additional corridors across the Safe Demilitarized Border Zone; and holding at least two meetings of the Joint Border Commission and Joint Demarcation Committee.

The Council also decided to maintain UNISFA’s authorized troop ceiling of 4,791 until 15 October 2018, and further that, as of that date, the ceiling would decrease to 4,250, unless the Council decided to extend the mandate modification.

The meeting began at 10:07 a.m. and ended at 10:09 a.m.